Last Updated：2025/12/05

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

(archaic) Something that inspires fear but presents no real danger.

音声機能が動作しない場合はこちらをご確認ください

See correct answer

scare-babe

Edit Histories（0）

Source Word

scare-babe

archaic

(archaic) Something that inspires fear but presents no real danger.

Japanese Meaning

（古語）実際には危険がないが、恐怖を呼び起こす存在

What is this buttons?

The villagers treated the old windmill as a scare-babe, trembling at its creaks though it posed no real threat.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

村人たちは古い風車を、人々を怖がらせるだけの存在のように扱い、そのきしむ音に震えたが、実際には何の危険もなかった。

Sense（1）

(archaic) Something that inspires fear but presents no real danger.

Let the wicked flatter themselves that all is but talk of any coming to judgment ; non aliud videre patres, aliudve nepotes aspicient; all is but terriculamenta nutricum, mere scare-babes.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

scare-babes

（ plural ）

Login / Sign up

　

Download the app!

DiQt

Free

★★★★★★★★★★